GEVO vs. AMTX, ORGN, VGAS, FF, TUSK, NRGV, DTI, PNRG, PROP, and MAXN
Should you be buying Gevo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gevo include Aemetis (AMTX), Origin Materials (ORGN), Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), FutureFuel (FF), Mammoth Energy Services (TUSK), Energy Vault (NRGV), Drilling Tools International (DTI), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), Prairie Operating (PROP), and Maxeon Solar Technologies (MAXN). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Aemetis (NASDAQ:AMTX) and Gevo (NASDAQ:GEVO) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
27.0% of Aemetis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Gevo shares are held by institutional investors. 16.4% of Aemetis shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Gevo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Aemetis has a net margin of -17.20% compared to Aemetis' net margin of -393.88%. Gevo's return on equity of 0.00% beat Aemetis' return on equity.
Gevo received 207 more outperform votes than Aemetis when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.80% of users gave Gevo an outperform vote while only 60.42% of users gave Aemetis an outperform vote.
Aemetis has higher revenue and earnings than Gevo. Aemetis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gevo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Aemetis had 13 more articles in the media than Gevo. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Aemetis and 5 mentions for Gevo. Aemetis' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Gevo's score of 0.41 indicating that Gevo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aemetis currently has a consensus target price of $10.40, suggesting a potential upside of 165.98%. Gevo has a consensus target price of $4.76, suggesting a potential upside of 575.53%. Given Aemetis' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gevo is more favorable than Aemetis.
Aemetis has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gevo has a beta of 2.88, meaning that its stock price is 188% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Gevo beats Aemetis on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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